Tie former



July 23, 1940. w. T. FALLON TIE FORMER Filed April 29, 1939 fl INVENTOLBY Patented July 23, 1940 TIE FORMER William T. Fallon, Douglaston, LongIsland, N

Application April 29, 1939, Serial No. 270,751

1 Claim.

My present invention relates to mens furnishings, and has particularreference to a novel tie former for facilitating the proper knotting ofa tie.

It is the principal object of my invention to provide a convenient tieformer for use in facilitating the knotting of a tie.

It is a further object of my invention to provide a simple arrangementfor insuring the formation of a centrally positioned dimple in the tieadjacent the knotted portion thereof.

Another object of my invention is to provide a simple device which maybe readily manufactured at low cost, and which can be sold at areasonable price.

With the above and other objects and advantageous features in view, theinvention consists of a novel arrangement of parts more fully disclosedin the detailed description following, in conjunction with theaccompanying drawing, and more specifically defined in the claimappended thereto.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 represents a view showing a knotted tie, with the novel tieformer in place;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the novel tie former, the parts being inopen position; and

Fig. 3 is a side view thereof, the parts being in relatively closedposition.

It has been found desirable to provide .a tie former which may bereadily attached to the tie during the knotting operation, and whichholds the tie in position so that the completed knot will provide acentrally positioned dimple in the front portion of the tie.

I have devised a simple and inexpensive contrivance which may be readilyattached to the tie during the knotting process, and which may bereadily removed therefrom after the tie has been knotted.

Referring to the drawing, the tie in its knotted form is indicated at A,and the novel tie former is designated [0. The tie former includes anupper plate portion II, a lower plate portion l2, and a handle l3, theupper plate portion being corrugated so as to provide a centrallypositioned and relatively sharp V-cut l4, and the lower portion beingsimilarly corrugated, and having two relatively sharp curves l5 and acentral rounded portion l6 therebetween. Each of the plate portions IIand I2 is preferably of tapered form, the plate portions being broad atthe rear end, and tapering towards the front as disclosed in Fig. l; thehandle I3 is preferably made of resilient spring wire, with its endsrespectively soldered or otherwise secured to the upper and pressure onthe handle is released, the two plate members will return to relativelyclosed position. In using the novel tie former, the tie is first knottedloosely, and the tie former is then clamped closely adjacent the knot,and over the front tie portion, which is received between the upperplate portion l I and lower plate portion 12. The tension of the coil llpresses the plate portions and thus corrugates the upper portion of thetie which is received therebetween; the tie knot is now completed, theknotting process drawing the tie portion forwardly, but without ironingout the dimple resulting from the coacting upper and lower plateportions, whereby the novel tie dimple former may be removed after thetie is completely formed to leave the upper portion of the tie with aperfectly formed, centrally positioned dimple.

While I have disclosed a specific embodiment of my invention, it isobvious that changes in the shape of the dimple forming members, inv theshape of the handle part,..and in the arrangement for releasablyretaining the dimple forming members in proper pressing position and forpermitting their separation to facilitate placing of the upper portionof the tie therebetween and withdrawal of the tie former from theknotted tie, may be made without departing from the spirit and the scopeof the invention as defined in the appendedclaim.

I claim:

As a new article of manufacture, a tie former comprising a corrugatedtop plate tapering towards one end, the corrugations being of aninverted W shape and forming two Vs joined at their adjacent edges, toprovide a centrally positioned and relatively sharp V out, a bottomplate having complementary,corrugations and being tapered similarly tothe top plate and having two sharp curves at the apices of the Vs and acentral rounded curve at the joined adjacent edges of thevs, and meansfor resiliently and releasably retaining said plates in superimposedrelation.

' WILLIAM T. FALLON.

